Popular conceit about learning programming languages

[Pascal Costanza]

Michele Simionato wrote:
>>I would like to know more specifically what features make Python 
>>special to you. As Kenny put it, in what regards is Pythonthink 
>>different from Otherlangthink?
> 
> 
> Different languages have different "natural" ways of doing things, so
> you have to think accordingly to the language you have at your
> disposal. I want to be specific here, and I take an example you cited
> in this tread, i.e. the problem discussed in
> http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/patterns/ppoop.html
> 
> Here the authors discuss different ways of solving a simple problem in
> the same
> language, according to different phylosophies.

Not quite. The purpose of that paper is to discuss the nature of 
object-oriented thinking. It is not specifically about how to find the 
best solution for the given problem, it's about how to find an 
object-oriented solution. (Non-OO solutions might do the job, perhaps 
even better, but that's besides the point.)

Their argument is that classes+design patterns doesn't guarantee 
object-orientedness.


Pascal
-- 
Given any rule, however ‘fundamental’ or ‘necessary’ for science, there 
are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the 
rule, but to adopt its opposite. - Paul Feyerabend